If you’d like to truly master Thai cooking, you need to start with the basics.

Those of you who have attended any of my classes know that I only use authentic, home-made sauces and condiments for my dishes. These include curry pastes, chili pastes and hot sauces, all made from plants and herbs grown in my own gardens.

Whenever possible, I also use fresh, natural ingredients for the red curry, green curry, panang curry, and yellow curry dishes that I teach in my classes.

I do recommend commercial products as replacements for my sauces, condiments and curry sauces when you are making the same dishes at home. But they are just not the same.

So, if you would like to learn the essential secrets of Thai cooking, I strongly recommend that you attend my two Thai Curry Classes: Curry Class One and Curry Class Two.

This coming Saturday, October 6, I will be hosting Curry Class One, “Smoke and Fire.” Later this month, on October 20, I will be hosting Curry Class Two, “Hot and Sour.”

An essential condiment for every Thai meal, it starts with chillies crushed the old-fashioned way, in a mortar and pestle.

This noodle soup is a wonderful meal in itself that millions of Thai people eat every day. We use ground pork to make the meatballs, but other meats can also be used.

Essential accompaniments to the soup include crispy won tons, fresh limes, dried chillies, peanuts, bean sprouts, cilantro. and various Thai soup condiments.

A creamy smooth, spicy curry that goes best with halibut, cod, or other white fish, like red snapper.

Perhaps the most popular of the Thai curry pastes, it can be made as hot and spicy as you like. Again, crushed red chillies are the secret to this paste.

A deeply satisfying blend of red curry paste, Thai Sweet Basil and coconut milk.

Key ingredients for this paste are galangal, lemongrass, coriander seeds and cardamon.

This is a milder curry than other Thai curries and can be used with beef, chicken, pork or tofu. We make it with high-quality beef.

A wonderful, cool ending to a hot and spicy meal!

If you’d like to attend this class, please get in touch ASAP, as we shall fill these places on a first-come, first-serve basis. Call us at 250-656-1227, or simply respond to this email.

There are three other Curry Classes scheduled for the Fall season which might work for you better than Saturday, October 6. They are:

NOTE: These classes are only offered through us. You may NOT register with the Panorama Recreation Centre.